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Today in Focus

How the UK government’s Rwanda asylum plan came unstuck

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The supreme court has ruled that the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful. Peter Walker explains what happens next. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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This is the Guardian. Today, stopped or stalled, understanding the Supreme Court ruling on the government's controversial

0:16.2

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1:00.4

To find out more, search AAT Training. When the government first proposed sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, it sounded chilling, but also totally ludicrous.

1:22.0

The people don't come across the channel illegally.

1:24.8

There's a thing that you can still say Rwanda with a straight face.

1:28.0

I mean that's an extraordinary achievement.

1:31.5

Why do you say that? Three prime ministers later and it is still government policy.

1:36.0

Yesterday the Supreme Court said the scheme was unlawful and struck it down.

1:41.0

But Rishi Sunak is not giving up. We are a reasonable government and

1:47.0

this is a reasonable country. But the British people's patience can only be stretched so thin and they expect the boats to be stopped.

1:57.3

That is why I made it one of my five priorities.

2:00.3

And whatever our critics might say say we are making progress.

2:06.0

He says the plan is not dead and he's ready to bring it back in a workable form,

2:10.0

possibly within days.

2:20.0

I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights. If the Strasbourg court chooses to intervene against the expressed wishes of Parliament,

2:26.0

I am prepared to do what is necessary to get flights off.

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